YouTube: pay to view channels en route

A piece of code found in an update to the YouTube Android app reveals pay-to-view channels coming to the video streaming website.

(Credit: Google)

Given the number of pre-roll advertisements increasingly appearing on YouTube videos, it felt like only a matter of time before Google rolled out some sort of pay-per-view service for the video-streaming and -sharing website — especially since Google, as The Wall Street Journal revealed, is said to be thinking about opening its own music streaming service, à la Spotify.